Comparison

Flashcards by Qrayon vs CardFlow

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Flashcards by Qrayon

Create and study custom flashcards with images and annotations. Organize decks, sync across devices via iCloud, and share with friends. Ideal for test preparation and subject mastery.

Highlights
  • Rapid card creation
  • Add images to cards
  • Organize into decks
  • iCloud syncing
  • Share decks with friends
  • Shuffle and flip cards
Features
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Quickly master your material with your favorite flash card techniques. Test yourself against your own deck of cards, and check off the ones you have mastered. Go through just the ones you missed until you have mastered them all. FlashCards lets you study anywhere, on your iPhone or iPad. Test yourself while on the bus, or first thing in the morning. Use it standalone, or import cards from Cardflow+. Features: • Rapidly create cards from within the app itself. • Add images to the front or back - even snap photos of existing cards. • Create rich cards with diagrams and annotations with Cardflow+ (see our developer page). • Organize cards into multiple decks. • Store cards in iCloud, or the service of your choice, to automatically sync across devices. • Share your decks with your friends - to study together. • Shuffle cards. • Flip all cards at once (great for two-way language vocabulary). • Perfect for preparing for standardized tests like the SAT, ACT, AP, GRE, MCAT. • Use it to master your favorite subject, be it biology, chemistry, history, or geography (quick, what's the capital of Madagascar?).

About

CardFlow

Create and study digital flashcards with a rich text editor or by capturing handwritten notes. Utilize spaced repetition learning tailored to your feedback for an efficient and personalized study experience.

Highlights
  • Rich text editor for flashcards
  • Fill-in-the-blank card options
  • Photo capture of handwritten notes
  • Spaced repetition learning schedule
  • Personalized study feedback slider
Features
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CardFlow is an app that allows users to create and study flashcards. Users can create flashcards either through a rich text editor with both front/back and fill-in-the-blank options or by taking a picture of handwritten notes and masking out parts of the picture to occlude in the flashcard. Cards can be studied using a spaced repetition schedule based on user feedback given through a slider scale after each repetition. This creates a more personalized and efficient study experience.

Screenshots

Flashcards by Qrayon4 screens
CardFlow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Flashcards by Qrayon at 4.6 against CardFlow's 3.8. Flashcards by Qrayon also leads on ratings volume (114 vs 12). CardFlow's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Flashcards by Qrayon holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flashcards by Qrayon has 114 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Flashcards by Qrayon's written reviews are positive against 40% of CardFlow's.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Flashcards by Qrayon versus CardFlow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlashcards by QrayonCardFlow
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (114 ratings) — better3.8 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews47.4% of reviews — better40.0% of reviews
Number of ratings114 — better12
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.611.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQrayon, LLCNathaniel Corey

Customer experience

Flashcards by Qrayon

All ratings113 ratings
Positive87.6%
Neutral6.2%
Negative6.2%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive47.4%
Neutral15.8%
Negative36.8%

CardFlow

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative40.0%

Bugs and requests

Flashcards by Qrayon

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • App crashes during review
  • App crashes with large decks (around 77-78 cards)
  • App crashes with large image-heavy decks (>900 cards)
  • Stopped working, won't open flashcards file
  • Synced decks remain greyed out, inaccessible
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  • Exporting Cardflow+ decks with images results in decks without images
  • App freezes for 20+ seconds every 10 flashcards
  • Written cards only show one side, other side is blank
  • Flashcards disappear after re-entering the app
  • Random non-flashcard files appear in recents
  • Does not work properly when integrated with Cardflow+
  • Deleted or hidden all flashcards
  • Unable to import or re-import flashcards from Cardflow+

Requested features

14 requests
  • Merge flashcard decks
  • Spaced repetition feature
  • Integration with Cardflow+ app
  • Move cards between stacks
  • Share individual cards to existing stacks
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  • Support for Apple Pencil
  • Time-based notifications for review
  • Full-screen card view
  • Keyboard navigation (arrows, spacebar)
  • Customizable zoom preference
  • Categorization of cards (easy, medium, hard)
  • Trend graphs for learning progress
  • Ability to edit text after exporting as PDF
  • Save learned words across reimports

CardFlow

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Flashcards by Qrayon

No in-app purchases

None

CardFlow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flashcards by Qrayon free?
Flashcards by Qrayon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CardFlow free?
CardFlow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Flashcards by Qrayon or CardFlow?
Flashcards by Qrayon is rated higher. Flashcards by Qrayon averages 4.6 out of 5 from 114 ratings, while CardFlow averages 3.8 from 12 ratings.
Do Flashcards by Qrayon or CardFlow have ads?
Neither Flashcards by Qrayon nor CardFlow shows ads.

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